Re: Metapost - text alignment

["Lars Clausen" <lars raeder dk>]

Young, Robert said:
> G'Day,
>
> I've just downloaded the latest Dia (previously using 0.94), and I've
> noticed that the Metapost export horizontal alignment is a little
> broken.
>
> Looking at the code, it appears that it's due to the text line
> improvements - Metapost is now told to left align all text and this
> doesn't work well.

Sorry about that.  Good thing you noticed in time.

> I'm willing to spend a little time trying to fix this.
>
> Lars - should I implement a draw_text and draw_text_line method for the
> Metapost export? Or what would you recommend?
>
> I can't promise to make this "perfect", but I would like the centre,
> left, and right aligned text to be honoured once again.

It would be an excellent idea to implement draw_text_line.  You should
then be able to drop draw_text entirely and have draw_string call
draw_text_line like in diagdkrenderer.

-Lars